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Katowice Map, Poland

If you feel like you need some help to find your way in your destination city, you are in the right place. This Katowice Map will certainly help you to seek out the best restaurants, clubs and sights in town. You want to know what is the best place for a walk? Or what you should be watching out for during your visit? Learn more about the best things to do in the city reading our travel tips and then get around in Katowice with Travelgrove's map. While searching for places, you can also check some cheap flights or deals or you can take a look at our user's galleries about the city. We hope you will find our city map of Katowice useful. Enjoy your trip and come back to share your travel experience about Katowice!

Katowice Travel Guide

There is still no explanation for the origins of the name Katowice: hundreds of years ago, the city was just a small blacksmiths community. Although most Katowice travel guides will present Katowice as an industrial city, almost 50% of its area is covered by parks, playgrounds, fields and forests (in recent years, Katowice managed to become one of the most bicycle-friendly cities in Europe). read more

Katowice Nightlife

In the recent years, Katowice municipality has made serious attempts to encourage local art and promote cultural manifestations of any kind. There are no less than four theater halls in Katowice: the Silesian Theater (biggest in the city – three scenes), Atheneum Theater, Korez Theatre and Rialto Cinetheater. Also, Cogitatur and GuGalander clubs host regularly experimental theater and cinema manifestations. For some... read more

Katowice History

Katowice is a relatively new city judging after Polish standards. Although archeologists have found traces of human settlements dating back to the 13th century, the official birth date of Katowice is 1598. That year, Reverend Kazimierski made a visit to a small parish called ‘Bogucice’. Back then, Katowice (that wasn’t even called this way) was mainly known for its smithies. No one knows exactly how Katowice... read more

Katowice Sightseeing

For a deep insight into the history and traditions of Silesia, you can start your walk at the Silesian Museum. After that, you can continue either with Katowice’s History Museum, or with the Modern Art Gallery. When it comes to contemporary arts, you have come to the right place; Katowice’s inventory of galleries includes the Art Exhibition Office, the Motion Picture Arts Center, the Wilson Shaft Gallery and the... read more